Luxury e-commerce destination Net-a-Porter launched out of the London flat of founder Natalie Massenet in 2000, a time when few thought $1,000+ dresses and shoes could be sold online in any significant volume. It was the tail-end of the dot-com bubble, and Net-a-Porter survived its burst, turning a profit for the first time in 2004, and selling to Swiss luxury goods holding company Richemont at a value of $533 million in 2010. Alison Loehnis (pictured above) is the managing director of Net-a-Porter's flagship site, Net-a-Porter.com . She has been an integral part of Net-a-Porter's growth, both before and in the years following Richemont's acquisition, joining the company as vice president of sales and marketing in 2007 from LVMH, where she served as global sales and marketing director for Thomas Pink. In the years since, Loehnis has supervised a range of customer and brand...